POLICE were called out to a disturbance at a Hampshire bail hostel where paedophile pop star Gary Glitter is staying following his release from a Dorset prison.
A crowd of people is understood to have gathered outside the property on Saturday, February 4, after the disgraced glam rock singer was freed the day before. He had served half of his 16-year sentence for sex crimes.
The 79-year-old, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s and whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.
He left HMP The Verne – a low security category C jail in Portland, Dorset – on Friday after eight years behind bars.
It is reported that protesters outside the bail hostel, which is located in a residential area, shouted demands for him to be removed from their neighbourhood, with one man attempting to scale a fence.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokesperson said on Saturday: “Police were called at 3.32pm today to reports of a public order incident.
“Officers attended the scene and the situation was resolved.
“No arrests were made.”
Glitter’s fall from grace occurred years earlier after he admitted possessing 4,000 child pornography images and was jailed for four months in 1999.
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